[ClearCase_guy]

I was thinking just the other day that the Stonewall Riots were in 1969. That’s sort of the start of “Gay Liberation” and the insistence that society must accept this lifestyle.

Roughly 10 years later, we get hit with AIDS. And the public is expected to panic. It’s worst disease ever. Always fatal. Never curable. And it’s spread through sex ... so ... ummmm ... everyone is at risk? Right? So you should be afraid.

The homosexuals had been “out” there for about 10 years and NO ONE really thought “That was a mistake. They need to go back into the closet”. Here it is 40 years later and the whole society is consumed by the lifestyle and its various manifestations.

We had a perfectly good opportunity say, “Tried toleration. Didn’t go well. Society does not accept you. Goodbye.”

[drwoof]

Yep, and we missed that opportunity. Now kids don’t know what sex they are, and warped adults are mutilating them. Wonderful. Not that anyone predicted this kind of thing...

[fwdude]

Stonewall was mearly a continuation of the destructive sexual revolution of the 60's. Banning of contraception was already made legal nationwide by Griswold v. Connecticut less than a decade before, and then in 1973 the APA de-pathologized (by terroristic lobbying of members) homosexuality as a mental disorder, granting them a large degree of new legitimacy.